Supporting the community in Kimba

Kimba Hospital opens palliative care wing with help from the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility’s Community Benefit Programme.
Photo of ribbon cutting to open the new palliative care rooms

Auxiliary secretary Toni Scott and long-time member Audrey Smart cut the ribbon to open the new palliative care rooms. Image credit: Rachel McDonald, Eyre Peninsula Tribune.

The Kimba Hospital has opened a new $250,000 palliative care wing designed to give privacy and space to terminally ill patients and their families. $220,000 of the project has come from the Community Benefit Programme as part of the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility consultations. The remaining funds were raised by the Ladies Auxiliary.

The Kimba Consultative Committee was thanked for supporting and recognising the importance of the project. The committee was tasked with advising the government on funding projects through the Community Benefit Programme.

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